Receptacle for sewing-machine tables



(No Model.) v

" G. L. GRAY.

- REUEPTAOLB FOR SEWING MACHINE TABLES. 35 .123. Patented Feb. 1, 1887.

' v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

I GEORGE L. GRAY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE NEW HOME SEWINGMACHINE COMPANY, OF ORANGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

RECEPTACLE FOR SEWING-MACHINE TABLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,123, dated February1,1887.

Application filed Apiil 5, 1886. Serial No. 197,923. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. GRAY, of Chicago, in the county of Cookand State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Receptacles for Sewing-Machine Tables; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improved swinging or pivoted drawer orreceptacle for sewing-machine tables; and it consists in the mattershereinafter described, and pointed out in the apppended claims.

Sewing-machine tables have heretofore been provided with a drawer orreceptacle for containing small articlessuch as the wrench,screw-driver, and other implements employed about a sewing-machine-saidreceptaclehaving been pivotally supported'beneath the middle part of thetable, at the front of the latter,

by means of a headed pivot or screw passing through a lug-0r projectionat one end of the receptacle, and fixed in the tabletop so as to allowthe opposite or free end of the receptacle to be swung outwardly fromthe front edge of the table to permit access to the open top of saidreceptacle.

Adrawer constructed in the manner above set forth has the disadvantageof being to some extent in the way of the operator when closed, and ofbeing in a position inconvenient for opening, inasmuch as its free endwhen swung outwardly is moved directly toward the person of the operatorsitting at the machine. To provide a construction in a similar swingingreceptacle whereby the objections above mentioned may be obviated, andwhereby, also, a more finished and ornamental appearance may be given tothe front of the table, I make the front piece or forward wall of thereceptacle in the shape of a bracket adapted to fill the corner spacebeneath the table adjacent to the supporting-standard or side drawersthereof; and I pivotally support the receptacle at its end adjacent tothe standard by laterally-sepagrated pivotal supports, preferablyconsisting of a single pivot bolt of rod inserted vertically through thefront piece of the receptacle, and

held at its upper end in the table-top'and at its lower end in a supporthaving rigid connection with the table top or standard through themedium of a drawer-supporting frame, or

- otherwise. By this construction the receptacle is pivotally sustainedin a manner to prevent sagging of its free end without great strain uponits supporting-pivots, while'at the same time by employing two similardrawers or receptacles-one at each side of the tablea neat and finishedappearance is given to the front of the latter.

The invention may be more readily understood by reference to theaccompanying drawings, in whicha Figure l isa front View of the upperpart of a sewing-machine table,illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is asectional plan view of one of the drawers thereof, taken upon line 00 wof Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section of the same, takenupon theline y y of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary front elevation of asewing machine table, illustrating another way of sustaining the drawerthereon. Fig. 5 is a sectional plan view taken upon line 00 w of Fig. 4.Fig. 6 is a fragmentary elevation illustrating still another way ofsustaining the receptacle. Fig. 7 is a sectional plan view taken uponline a: w of Fig. 6. 7

As illustrated in the said drawings, A indicates the table-top; B B, thestandards, and C C, twopivoted receptacles or drawers located, one ateach side of the table adjacent to the standards. sists of a front pieceor board, C, made of a generally triangular or bracket shape, a bottom,0, and end and rear walls, 0 c, said bottom, end, and rear walls beingfixed to the rear or inner surface of the front piece, C. Said frontpieces are made with straight horizontal top edges and straight verticaledges at their ends adjacent to the standards, as clearly shown in thedrawings. As shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, each of the drawers orreceptacles C is pivotally supported by means of a single pivot pin orbolt, D, passing vertically through the front piece, C, near thevertical end of the latter, which is adjacent to the standard 13,engaged at its lower end with the lug b upon the standard, and securedat its upper end in the table-top, the said pivot pin or bolt being UThe said receptacles C each con- 8 pivotal support therefor.

desirably provided with a slotted head, cl, at its lower end andthreaded at its upper end for convenient insertion in the saidtable-top, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

In cases where a series of narrow drawers or receptacles are locatedbeneath the table-top exterior to the standard, as illustrated in Figs.1, 4, and 6, a pivotal support for the lower edge of the front piece, 0,is preferably formed by a lug or projection upon the casing, frame, orother support sustaining said drawers, instead of upon the standard,asabove described.

As illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, for instance, a casing, E, is showncontaining a series of drawers, E", and upon the inner surface of saidcasing,adjaccntto the standard, is placed a lug, e, which extendsinwardly beneath the lower edge of the front piece, 0'', and formsthelower The lug 6 may in this case be conveniently formed of a bent pieceof metal secured by screws or otherwise to the wooden side of the casingE, as clearly shown in said Figs. 4 and 5. In this instance thereceptacle is pivoted to the table and the lug c by means of a shortpivot-pin, D, which is inserted through the lug c into the lower edge ofthe front piece, 0, together with a second pin or stud, 10*, secured inthe top of said front piece and engaging a recess, a, in the undersurface of the top A.

The construction in which the vertical edge of the front piece, G, ofthe receptacle is lo cated adjacent to the casing E, as shown in Figs.at and 5, tends to give aneat and finished appearance to the front ofthe table, inasmuch as the front of the drawers Eand the frontpiece ofthe drawer O by such construction present a continuous wooden surfacewithout any space, such as is formed by the presence of the standards inthe construction illustrated in Fig'. 1. The same general result may,however, be obtained in the construction in which the supporting-lugisformed directly upon the standard by extending the drawer-front C overor in front of the standard and by providing upon said standard aforwardly-projecting lug, as indicated by dotted lines at b, Fig. 1, forforming a lower pivotal support for the receptacle. This construction isusually only desirable, however, when exterior side drawers areemployed, and when such side drawers are absent the receptacles C willpreferably be supported in the manner shown in Fig. 1.

In Figs. 1, 8, and (i a series of side drawers, F, are shown, which aresustained upon horizontal boards F, rigidly attached at their inneredges to the machine-table, so as to render unnecessary any casingsurrounding the drawers, such as is shown in Fig. 4. lVhen hori zontalboards for sustaining the drawerssuch as are above referred toareemployed, suitable pivotal supports for the lower part of the receptaclemay be formed bya lug attached to or a projection formed upon one ofsaid boards. The latter construction is shown in the drawings, Figs. 6and 7, in which the board F is shown as provided with a lateralprojeetiomf, located at a point adjacent to its front end and extendinginwardly in position to receive a vertical pivot-pin, D, which passesthrough said projectionf and the front piece,C,in the same manner asbefore described, in connection with the form of the device shown inFig. 1.

When the board F is made with an integral projection, f, as above setforth, the front edge of said projection is preferably made to form acontinuation of the finished front edge of said board, as clearly shownin the drawings.

The means of formingthe lower pivotal support for the receptacle inwhich said support is formed by a projectiomf, upon the board F' is ofparticular advantage, inasmuch as said projectionf may be readily formedwith little expenditure of time and labor, while at the same time anyappearance of a pivotal joint at this point when the receptacle isclosed is avoided.

A general advantage gained by the location of the lower support for thepivoted receptacle upon a drawer-supporting board, F, is that the frontends of said boards are usually located in proper position for thispurpose,and the makingof forwardly-pro cctinglugs upon or other specialconstruction in the standards for the purpose of providing such supportis thereby rendered unnecessary.

As far as the general features of my inveution are concerned, thehorizontal boards F may be sustained upon the table in any wellknown orpreferred manner. As herein shown,

however, said boards are attached to and upheld'by depending arms orbrackets F, se" cured at their upper ends to the table-top in the mannershown in a prior application for patent, No. 183,196, filed by me in theUnited States Patent Office upon the 8th day of November, 1885. Vhen thesaid brackets F are present, they obviously form part of thedrawer-supporting frame, and a construction in which the lower pivotalsupport for the receptacle O is formed upon one of said brack-' ets istherefore included in my invention. Such construction is indicated inFig. 6, in which the dotted lines (1 show a lug formed upon said bracketF and extending forward into position to receive the pivot of the saidfront piece, 0.

A pin or stop, G, may be conveniently provided upon the under surface ofthe tabletop for limiting the backward movement of the swinging drawers,as clear] y shown in the several figures.

The broad features of my invention are embraced in a construction inwhich the pivoted receptacle is provided with a front piece fitted tothe under surface ofthe table-top and having a vertical outer edgelocated adjacent to the inner sides of a drawer or drawers at the end ofthe table, and such construction is herein broadly claimed withoutrestriction to the employment of vertically-separated piv otal supportsfor the receptacle such as are above describedas, for instance, thereceptacle may be pivotally connected with the table-top by 'a headedpivot screw or bolt inserted through the front piece, 0', and fixed inthe table-top, as indicated 'in dotted lines at D, Figs. 1 and 2. Whenaheaded pivot suchas is last described is employed, it will bepreferably placed at. a point somewhat distant from the outer edge orend of the front piece, as shown by dotted lines in said Figs. 1 and 2,so that the strain due to the weight of the receptacle and its contentswill come vertically downward upon the pivot instead of transverselythereon, as would be the case were the said pivot-pin D located at theend of the front piece, and in thesame position as when the pivot issupported both at its upper and lower ends. Inasmuch, however, asimportant advantrges are gained by the employment ofvertically-separated pivotal supports for the outer end of thereceptacle, such verticallyseparated supports are also herein claimedwithout restriction to'the particular construction shown in the parts bywhich said supports.

are formed.

The construction in which the lower sup port for the pivot is sustainedupon a drawersupporting frame at the side of the table affords importantadvantages in practice, inasmuch .as the table-standards are seldom soshaped or located as to enable a suitable support or lug for the lowerend of the pivot to be conveniently formed upon or attached to saidstandards, and the construction in which the said lug is sustained upona drawer-supporting frame is therefore herein also claimed as part of myinvention, as are certain of the more specific features of constructionhereinbefore described.

The means for sustaining the supportingboards F, comprising the bracketsF, I consider a desirable one in'practice, and a construction embracingsaid brackets as a means of sustaining the board F, provided with aprojection or lug affording the lower pivotal support of the receptacle0, is therefore herein specifically claimed as part of my invention.

I am aware that it has been proposed heretofore to employ, in connectionwith a sewingmachine case or cabinet containing a series of horizontalpartitions, a series of trays pivotally supported between saidpartitions by pivots located at one of the rear corners of themachine-table, sothat the said trays may be turned outward from the endof the stand, and in view of this prior device my invention isrestricted to a drawer or receptacle supported by a pivot engaging thefront piece of the receptacle, as set forth in the appended claims. 'Iclaimas my invention- 1. The combination, with asewing-machine table topand standards, of receptacles O 0,

located beneath the table-top and provided with vertical front pieces orboards,(l C, said receptacles being sustained by pivotal supportslocated at points adjacent to the standards and engaging the outer endportions of the said front pieces, 0, substantially as described.

2. The combination,with a sewing-machine table top and standardsland adrawer-supporting frame located exterior to the standards beneath thetop, of a pivoted receptacle, 0, having a front piece, 0, locatedbeneath the top inside of the standard and adjacent to the drawers, andvertically-separated pivotal supports for said receptacle engaging saidfront piece, 0, the lower one of said supports being sustained upon saiddrawer-supporting frame, substantially as described.

3. The combination,with a sewing-machine table top and standards and ahorizontal drawer-supporting board, F, located exterior to thestandards, of a pivoted receptacle, 0, located inside of the standardsandhaving a front piece, 0, and vertically-separated pivotal supportsfor said receptacle engaging saidfront piece, 0, the lower one of saidpivotal supports being formed by a projection upon said board F,substantially as described.

.4. The'combination,with a sewing-machine table top and standards, ahorizontal drawersupporting board, F, located exterior to the standards,and brackets F sustaining said board F, of a pivoted receptacle, 0,having a front piece, 0', and ve'rticallyseparated pivotal supports forsaid receptacle engaging said front piece, 0, the lower one of saidpivotal supports being formed by a projection upon said board F,substantially as described.

5. The combination,with a sewing-machine table top andv standards and ahorizontal drawer-supporting board, F, provided with a lateralprojection, f, of a pivoted receptacle,0,

having a front piece, C, and a pivot-pin, D, passing vertically throughsaid projection f and the front piece, 0, and secured at its upper endin the tabletop, substantially as described.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my invention I affix mysignature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE L. GRAY. Witnesses:

O. CLARENCE POOLE, G. F. LANAGHEN.

